African Diaspora Film Club | BOMBA – DANCING THE DRUM

This month, in anticipation of our 4-week lecture series “The Rhythmic Roots of Afro-Latin Music” with grammy-nominated musician and educator John Santos, we will be discussing BOMBA ~ Dancing the Drum, a 60-minute documentary about the legendary Cepeda family, known as the “patriarch family of Bomba, Puerto Rico’s classic African-rooted music and dance. For more than a century the Cepeda family has been in the forefront of the struggle to keep the Bomba alive in Puerto Rico. Don Rafael Cepeda, the patriarch of the family, learned the Bomba tradition from his grandfather and passed the tradition onto each of his 13 children who, in turn, are passing it on to their children and grandchildren.